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| 1: | Did Yahweh Have a Consort, Kuntillet Ajrud, Ze'ev Meshel, 1979 ...
Did Yahweh Have a Consort? Ze'ev Meshel BAR 5:02, Mar/Apr 1979 (Did Yahweh Have a Consort, Kuntillet Ajrud, Ze'ev Meshel, 1979 AD) The new religious inscriptions from the Sinai The book of Kings describes a time during the 9th-7th centuries B.C. when the ... of northern Sinai, we found evidence of the multiplicity of religious practices which provoked the prophets' fury. In three short seasons of excavation in 1975 and 1976 we uncovered a remarkable (and completely unexpected) collection of ancient Hebrew and Phoenician inscriptions painted on ... Yahweh (spelled YHWH in Hebrew consonantal writing) is the holy name of the Hebrew God as it appears in the Bible. El, a generic term for God, is ... a hill which rises beside the Wadi Quraiyaa. Old maps reveal that the site is a crossroads of desert tracks: one leads from Gaza through ... An entryway (2) led from the small entrance court to a broad, narrow room, which we call the "benchroom" (3). Both the bench-room and the entry had ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-exodus-kadesh-barnea-did-yahweh-have-a-consort-kuntillet-ajrud-zeev-meshel-1979ad.htm | 97%  Size: 26K Depth: 6 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 2: | bible-archeology-exodus-kadesh-barnea-kuntillet-ajrud-anchor Anchor Bible Dictionary, 1991 AD (Kuntillet Ajrud, Ze'ev Meshel, Anchor Bible Dictionary, 1991 AD) KUNTILLET (AJRUD (M.R. 094954) The Arabic name, meaning "hill of the water-source," of a site located in N Sinai. Ruins of the site date to the 8th century B.C. (the time of the Israelite monarchy), and various remains suggest that it served as some sort of a religious center. Of particular significance are inscriptional references to "Yah-weh of Samaria and his Asherah" and to "Yahweh of Teman," which provide important evidence of the ... KUN.01. The top of the hill is a long and narrow plateau, and the actual ruins are found at its W end. At the foot of the hill there is a ... This "bench room" (locus 6) extends N-S across the entire width of the building and apparently was the most important part of the site. The ... The fragments of plaster that had dropped from the walls of the bench room included two Hebrew inscriptions written in Phoenician script. A part of a third inscription ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-exodus-kadesh-barnea-kuntillet-ajrud-zeev-meshel-anchor-bible-dictionary-1991ad.htm | 95% Size: 25K Depth: 6 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 3: | Kuntillet Ajrud Fortress and Ostraca: One of Solomon's network ... Kuntillet Ajrud is probably most famous for the inscription found there that indicates a period of mixing paganism with pure monotheistic Judaism: "Amaryau said to my lord. ... may you be blessed by Yahweh and by his Asherah. Yahweh bless ... years! (See details about the Silver Scroll from Ketef Hinnom) f. The Phoenician inscription is not a direct match for the Torah words in Numbers 6:24, but it is clearly a paraphrase. "The Arabic name, meaning "hill of the water-source," of a site located in N Sinai. (Kuntillet Ajrud, Ze'ev Meshel, Anchor Bible Dictionary, 1991 AD). ... It is tantalizing to try to date Kuntillet Ajrud, to pinpoint in whose reign this religious center was established. The pottery and the form ... This "bench room" (locus 6) extends N-S across the entire width of the building and apparently was the most important part of the site. The ... D. Many Ostraca: The inscriptions found at Kuntillet Ajrud: Religious center: 1. Many ostraca were found at Kuntillet Ajrud, including ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-exodus-kadesh-barnea-fortresses-kuntillet-ajrud.htm | 94% Size: 55K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 4: | A Note on an Inscription from Kuntillet Ajrud, Debra Chase Introduction In 1975-76 several Hebrew and Phoenician inscriptions were discovered in a fortress-like structure at Kuntillet Ajrud (Kuntillet Quraiyah) in the northern Sinai. Numerous reports on the finds have appeared, but the most complete is Israel Museum Catalogue 175, Kuntillet Ajrud: A Religious Centre from the Time of the Judaean Monarchy on ... "Utterance of Amaryaw. Say to my lord, Is it well with you? I bless you by Yahweh... and by his/ its (?) asherah. May he bless and keep you and be with my lord." ... The second (right) v is lower than the first, as in the mems found in lines 1 and 2. The stance of the mem is identical to that of the earlier mems, as is the ... Should there be a more specific title or personal name here, as in the inscription on cAjral Pithos 1? I think not. The title 'MOW/ may be used for any superior. ... 1976: 6-10; Meshel 1978a: 50-54; 1979: 24-35. 21n the discussions of the inscriptional material from the site this pithos is identified as the "second" one. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-exodus-kadesh-barnea-inscription-from-kuntillet-ajrud-debra-chase-1982ad.htm | 85% Size: 17K Depth: 6 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 5: | Joshua's Altar on Mt. Ebal and the Lead Curse Tablet ... to Level II. "Animal bones from Level II have been found in the area of the courtyards; these bones are not burnt ... BC. He discovered the cartouche of Tuthmoses III at the site. (see below). Tuthmoses III was the pharaoh of the exodus. ... The earliest Hebrew, Egyptian, and Phoenician scripts were read left to right, right to left, top to bottom, bottom to ... the three-letter "YHW" for the name of God. The curse tablet predates the oldest known Hebrew use of YHWH by 300-575 years. Currently, the oldest Hebrew text that contained YHWH, is the Kuntillet Ajrud ostracon which dates to 839 BC. Kuntillet Ajrud is ... Petrovich identified a series of Hebrew "Sinai Inscriptions" at Serabit el-Khadim that he dated to the time of the exodus. ... This discovery, like that of the altar, reveals the hitherto undisclosed world of religious ritual of the early ... not have been built by Joshua, because no Hebrew worshipper of Yahweh would ever build an altar overtop of a pagan altar. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-altar-of-joshua.htm | 79% Size: 538K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 6: | Archaeology and the Religions of Canaan and Israel, Beth Alpert ... ... It resembles two found at contemporary Pella. Chalices, a Phoenician-style painted storejar, an animal figurine and two ... Although the handle stamped with the name "ImmadiYo" was found just outside the temenos complex, its presence attests to ... This courtyard opened into a narrow bench-lined chamber, the first of its two covered rooms. The second, interior room was ... Other finds include additional tripod incense burners, nine shells and the only four lamps found in this stratum (Pritchard ... ISRAELITE SACRED PLACES OF THE IRON AGE Kuntillet ªAjrud Kuntillet ªAjrud was a mid-ninth to mid-eighth century B.C.E. caravanserai ... Two buildings stood on the top of the site. One was small, once "splendid" but poorly preserved and the other, large and ... The religious expression attested in these drawings and inscriptions is marked by its syncretistic nature, including the worship of Yahweh of Samaria, of Baal and of Asherah (Beck 1982; Dever 1990: 140-49; Keel and Uehlinger 1998: 210-39 and ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-archaeology-and-the-religions-of-Canaan-and-israel-beth-alpert-nakhai.htm | 78% Size: 576K Depth: 6 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 7: | Elijah and Elisha Chronology timeline 870-810 BC inscriptions of Shalmaneser III, king of Assyria: 858 - 828 BC a. Kurkh Monolith 852 BC b. Basalt Statue 833 BC c. Black Obelisk 827 BC d. Bronze Gates 847 BC e. Basalt Throne 849 BC f. Clay Brick 858-839 BC g. Twin Bulls 840 BC h. Marble Tablets 838 BC i. Alabaster Statue 838 BC 7. Kuntillet Ajrud ostraca "Fortress in the Negev": 839 BC 8. Silver Scroll from Ketef Hinnom: 725-650 BC 9. Elisha of Ostraca found ... See also detailed outline on the Jordan River and this crossing/baptism site of John the Baptist. b. Joshua's crossing point of the Jordan on dry ... I fall at the feet of the king, my lord, 7 times and 7 times. 5-10 Behold, the king, my lord, has placed his name at the rising of the sun and at ... Ahab built his ivory palace in Samaria and the Phoenician ivory motifs excavated from the palace where Jezebel lived, invoke of the goddess ... The faithless priests only source of money was the service fees from guilt and sin offerings of the people. (2 Kings 12:16) Religious practice ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/chronology/bible-chronology-timeline-Elijah-Elisha-John-the-Baptist-Jesus-types-antitypes-870-810BC.htm | 71% Size: 836K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 8: | Timna ... Indeed, it is the first time that Midianite civilization and worship has come to light in the form of temple architecture and of a variety of votive objects and offerings. The study of the religious and cultural implications and connections ... We recall here the view, voiced by some Biblical scholars, that the cult of Yahweh, at this stage intrinsically the invisible Yahweh who 'tented' among his people and whose proper dwelling was a tent, may have been of Kenite-Midianite origin. ... Furthermore, the Negev also imported pottery from elsewhere during Iron Age II as was shown in a provenance study of pottery found at Kuntillet 'Ajrud, a site south of Qadesh Barnea (Gunneweg et al. 1985). (Edomite, Negev, Midianite Pottery: Neutron Activation Analysis, ... A highly interesting record of large scale copper smelting under-takings exists from the reign of Ramesses III, though until now this detail was hardly noticed and the name of the mining area mentioned remained so far unidentified. In Papyrus ... ... https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-timna.htm | 63% Size: 64K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 9: | Rehoboam, Shishak I (945-924 BC ) Canaan battle relief topographical ... Since the Bible refers to hundreds of cities, kings, and places, we would expect to find evidence from on-site excavations. And this is exactly what we have found. ... Karnak Invasion of Canaan relief: 926 BC 1 Kings 11:40; 14:25-26; 2 Chronicles 12:2-9 187 city "name rings" in Israel and 43 Bible cities! Introduction: Rehoboam ... policies (14:22-24) implies that the attack was divine punishment for the religious inconstancy of Rehoboam, and the leaders of Judah, and this is made explicit ... as Penuel in Transjordan, which had been fortified by Jeroboam (cf. 1 Kings 12:25), and as far north as Megiddo, where a fragment of a Shishak stele has been found. ... done without reference to the rest of the wall and colonnade." (Reliefs and Inscriptions at Karnak: The Bubasite Portal by The Epigraphic Survey, George R. Hughes, ... on the Darb Ghazza trade route, several have found on either side like Kuntillet Ajrud and Borot Loz ponds. "And above all, south of Qadesh Barnea along important ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-sheshonq-I-shoshenq-shishak-shishaq-bubastite-karnak-conquest-campaign-canaan-battle-relief-topographical-list-187-cities-conquered-name-rings-926bc.htm | 62% Size: 211K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 10: | Nimrod and the Archaeology of the Tower of Babel by Steven Rudd ... ... V. Mount Ararat in Ancient Sumerian cuneiform inscriptions: 122 VI. Conclusion to Nimrod as Enmerkar chapter. 127 CHAPTER 14: Nimrod is not Sargon I of Akkad. 128 ... Nineveh. 8. Calneh: Unknown southern city founded by Nimrod in 3200 BC (Gen 10:10) 9. Choga Mish: Nimrod's bread factory where 250,000 Bevel Rim Bowls were found. ... Alternate Sumerian name for Biblical Babel and location of the Tower of Babel. Archaeological site name is Tel Abu Shahrain. 14. Habuba Kabria: Walled city founded after ... The holy place of Eridu was also deeply related to Inanna and Adapa religious hemispheres, but for the Near East mythopoeic thought Eridu was, first of all, the ... Middle Bronze II (MB II, same as MB IIB) 1728 BC: 1st year of Hammurabi's reign. (Low Chronology) Phoenician alphabet invented, based upon Hebrew: 1700 1656-1556 ... Nimrod/Sargon translation: "That one acted irreverently, in order to become powerful on the earth; he became a powerful slaughterer in the sight of Yahweh." b. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/nimrod/welcome.htm | 61% Size: 1.4M Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 11: | Kadesh-Barnea by Henry Clay Trumbull, 1884 AD ... Egyptian inscriptions antedate those of Chaldea and Assyria; but, as is indicated in the enterprise of Kedor-la omer, the East was clearly in advance of Egypt in ... Sacra for January, 1868 (Article, " The Site of Sodom"), and again in the latter s notes on Grove s articles, in the American edition of Smith s Bible Dictionary. ... Yet this mountain may take its name from the wilderness, instead of giving a name to it, if in fact the name is to be found there. Laborde, indeed, applies the name " Djebel ... 2 or Book-town, or City of Books; 3 and again Kirjath-sanuah, 4 or City of Instruc tion; 5 indicating its prominence as a literary and religious centre. ... And this fortress of " Kana an " is again referred to as in the " land of Zulu," which comprised the Philistine and Phoenician country (Hist, of Ejypt, II., 164, ... sur VExode ct Ics Xombrcs (Paris, 1S41), that the present castle Ajerud, or Ajrud .... is to be identified with its site and name [of Pi-hahiroth] .... is not ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-exodus-kadesh-barnea-henry-clay-trumbull-1884ad.htm | 60% Size: 1.1M Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 12: | Timna: Valley of the Biblical Copper Mines, Beno Rothenberg, ... ... Next to the entrance, inside the building, a low stone bench, possibly an offering bench, was built against the eastern wall. A large, square, flat-topped stone stood ... Loci 106-107 and and also dispersed over a wide area around the actual temple site, testifying to the unusually high aesthetic quality of the original naos building. Several square pillars bearing traces of hieroglyphic inscriptions were found lying around the naos, others The Hathor Temple at Timna were found built into ... On the second floor in the trench in front of the naos a cartouche bearing the name of Ramesses Ill was found, as well as Egyptian glass fragments and other finds. It ... The study of the religious and cultural implications and connections of the Timna Temple finds is only at its beginning, but already at this stage of enquiry these ... We recall here the view, voiced by some Biblical scholars, that the cult of Yahweh, at this stage intrinsically the invisible Yahweh who 'tented' among his people and ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-timna-valley-of-the-biblical-copper-mines-beno-rothenberg-1969ad.htm | 60% Size: 166K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 13: | Sabbatatrians Refuted and Sabbath keepers Exposed: 2011 AD ... Another source, Brown-Driver-Briggs, gives the following definitions. Note that a secondary use of this word can mean "to set aside for religious ... not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the ... recent archaeological discoveries of artifacts with inscriptions that date back to the 10th Century BCE, including one found at a dig in a village believed to have been built near the time of the early Kingdom of Judah. ... All of which in them and.he-is-stopping in.the.day the.seventh on so He blessed Yahweh. Exodus 20, therefore, does not provide any definite support for the ...//biblesuite.com/hebrew/5117.htm: נוּחַ verb rest (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic נוּחַ, ; Phoenician נחת noun rest; possibly also verb ינח (Iph. ... up the "double application" position of this chapter, explained in more detail at another web page at this site titled: Isaiah 66:23: New Moon observance. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/7-lying-for-god-Kerry-Wynne.htm | 58% Size: 2.6M Depth: 1 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 14: | Ostraca, Tablets and Inscriptions of the Bible Ostraca, Tablets and Inscriptions of the Bible Elisha Ostraca: Discovered in 2013 AD at Tel Rehov (Biblical Abel-meholah), the ostraca with the name of Elisha written in ancient Paleo-Hebrew is a stunning confirmation of the Bible. A honey bee factory (apiary) was also discovered with man-made ceramic cylinder bee hives. Excavations at Tel Rehov: Elisha ostraca was found in 2013 AD See also: Chronology of Elisha and Elijah Lachish Letters Ostraca collection King Josiah Letters Ostraca collection DETAILED OUTLINE DETAILED OUTLINE Arad Ostraca collection Ramah-Negev (Tel Ira) Ostraca collection DETAILED OUTLINE DETAILED OUTLINE Ostraca from Kuntillet Ajrud Founded as a Negev border fortress by Solomon, it was occupied by the pagan Jews ... Most striking is that this pagan inscription contains the oldest quotation of the Bible on earth from Numbers 6:24-26 "may the Lord bless and keep you". Although the text is in Phoenician, it predates the famous silver scroll by 140 years! (See details ... ... https://www.bible.ca/ostraca/welcome.htm | 56% Size: 14K Depth: 1 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 15: | Ein El-Qudeirat is not Kadesh Barnea: : Wrongly identified as ... Fortress of Solomon 950 BC but Cannot be Kadesh Barnea "The world's unfortunate choice for Kadesh Barnea: 1916 AD - Present" Click to View "Has the site been correctly identified? If ... Click to View Qudeirat Click to View Qedeis Click to View Quseima Click to View Nahas Click to View K. Ajrud Click to View Elat/Kheleifeh Click to View Haseva Click to View Loz ... We however reject both Qedeis and Qudeirat as Kadesh Barnea and believe it is located at or near Petra. This "similarity of name" argument became the most important "proof" that Kadesh Barnea had been found at Ein Qedeis until Ein el-Qudeirat dethroned Ein ... of its association with Moses and the Exodus, and that the fortress was therefore important for religious as well as practical reasons. This, to be sure, is conjectural at present. ... within the ashes from the conflagration of the upper fortress in the context of Cypro-Phoenician juglets, a collection of tens of handmade, coarse `Negbite' pots, and a predominance ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-exodus-kadesh-barnea-fortresses-ein-el-qudeirat.htm | 54% Size: 123K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 16: | 'Edomite', `Negbite' And 'Midianite' Pottery From The Negev Desert ... ... context of Cypro-Phoenician juglets, a collection of tens of handmade, coarse `Negbite' pots, and a predominance of Judahite vessels reminiscent of the seventh to sixth century BC (Cohen 1983, 100). ... Finally, four loomweights of unbaked clay, found at Qadesh Barnea and Horvat Rogem, seemed logical candidates for obtaining a local chemical composition for these sites or their immediate environment, because loomweights are usually made locally from the clay available at a site. However, the loom weights did not live up to our expectations. The analysis of clay has its own difficulties: clay used for loomweights is not necessarily identical with that used for the manufacture of pottery (Widemann et al. 1975, 75). All 81 samples are listed in Table 2 with their name, code number and ... Furthermore, the Negev also imported pottery from elsewhere during Iron Age II as was shown in a provenance study of pottery found at Kuntillet 'Ajrud, a site south of Qadesh Barnea (Gunneweg et al. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-pottery-edomite-negev-midianite-neutron-activation-analysis-j-gunneweg-1991ad.htm | 53% Size: 49K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 17: | Oldest Old Testament Bible manuscripts: Qumran | Wadi Murabba ... ... many Greek-speaking Jews came to Jerusalem for the religious festivals, and even returned to live in their native land (without, however, leaving behind Greek as their primary language). Remarkably, fragments of Greek Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy were even found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, a testimony to how far ... site: a. Qumran: 27 fragments from Cave 4 and 2 fragments from Cave 8. b. Wadi Murabba'at: 2 fragments c. Nahal Se'elim: 2 fragments d. See full outline on Phylactery and Mezuzah Bible texts I. Dead Sea Scrolls (Hebrew manuscripts) at Qumran that agree with the LXX not the Masoretic: 1. "Isaiah 9:6 reads, "she shall call his name... Scripts, Paleo-Hebrew or Phoenician script was used before Aramaic script was introduced by Jews returning from Babylonia, Jonathan P. Siegel, BAR, June 1979 AD) c. ... Most of the written material discovered on Masada' emanates from Jews. This is certainly true of the Aramaic and Hebrew ostraca and jar inscriptions as well as of the ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/manuscripts/Septuagint-LXX-oldest-manuscripts-Bible-Ancient-copies-Dead-Sea-Scrolls-Qumran-Masada-Nahal-Hever-Nahal-Seelim-Wadi-Murabbaat-Masoretic-Greek-Hebrew-Aramaic.htm | 53% Size: 362K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 18: | Oldest Old Testament Bible manuscripts: Qumran | Wadi Murabba ... ... many Greek-speaking Jews came to Jerusalem for the religious festivals, and even returned to live in their native land (without, however, leaving behind Greek as their primary language). Remarkably, fragments of Greek Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy were even found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, a testimony to how far ... site: a. Qumran: 27 fragments from Cave 4 and 2 fragments from Cave 8. b. Wadi Murabba'at: 2 fragments c. Nahal Se'elim: 2 fragments d. See full outline on Phylactery and Mezuzah Bible texts I. Dead Sea Scrolls (Hebrew manuscripts) at Qumran that agree with the LXX not the Masoretic: 1. "Isaiah 9:6 reads, "she shall call his name... Scripts, Paleo-Hebrew or Phoenician script was used before Aramaic script was introduced by Jews returning from Babylonia, Jonathan P. Siegel, BAR, June 1979 AD) c. ... Most of the written material discovered on Masada' emanates from Jews. This is certainly true of the Aramaic and Hebrew ostraca and jar inscriptions as well as of the ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/manuscripts/Septuagint-LXX-oldest-manuscripts-Bible-Ancient-copies-Dead-Sea-Scrolls-Qumran-Masada-Nahal-Hever-Nahal-Seelim-Wadi-Murabbaat-Masoretic-Greek-Hebrew-Aramaic | 53% Size: 362K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 19: | Archeology of the Oppression, Exodus and Conquest of Israel: ... ... the world's first alphabet shortly after they moved to Avaris also known as the archeological site named Tel el Dab'a. 10. In 1806 BC Joseph dies. 11. Joseph is buried in the great tomb structure at Avaris excavated at Tel el Dab'a. ... This papyrus dates back to the end of the thirteenth century BC, more precisely to the fifth year of Sethos (Seti) II (ca. 1209 BC). These people should not be taken as Edomites, but as Shosu from Edom. As Yahweh is said to have risen ... This proves the Bible was right all along and that "Jabin" is a dynastic name for a series of kings rather than the one time use of a single king. Two 18-17th century inscriptions have been found at Mari and Hazor with the name Jabin. A third is on the names list of Ramesses II at the ... Doug Petrovich is the first person in history to translate these 16 inscriptions and it all started when he realized they were in ancient Hebrew. This refutes the previous notion that Phoenician was the first alphabet and proves beyond ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/manuscripts/bible-archeological-evidence-of-the-Exodus-Egyptian-Oppression-Hebrew-Conquest-Israel-Sinai-inscriptions-Jacob-in-Egypt-Joseph-Moses-inscription.htm | 53% Size: 113K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 20: | Pots and Polities: Material Remains of Late Iron Age Judah in ... ... Trade contact is a possible explanation for the distribution pattern, but that is unlikely in view of the religious nature of the JPF and their crude manufacture. If such figurines were traded, ... The metrol-ogy of the JIW is also distinctive, being different from other weight systems such as the Egyptian (Petrie 1926; Cour-Marty 1990), Mesopotamian (Powell 1979; 1992), and Phoenician ... Fig. 7. The Judaean inscribed weights, distribution map. - - - - Judah's border, following Nacaman 1989. Num-bers indicate the quantity of weights found at each site (omitted when only one weight was found). ... are the date (seventh versus eighth century B.C.), the quan-tity (1200 versus 178, numbers found up to 1990) and the clearly royal status of the lmlk stamps (shown in their inscriptions). ... with 2 Kgs 23:11 (May 1935: 28; MacKay 1973; Dever 1990: 156-57; Taylor 1993: 24-37; 1994: 55-59; for standing riders, Wenning 1991), or even Yahweh himself (Ahlstrom 1982: 82-83; 1984: 22-23). ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-exodus-kadesh-barnea-pots-and-polities-material-remains-of-late-iron-age-judah-in-relation-to-its-political-borders-raz-kletter-1999ad.htm | 52% Size: 140K Depth: 6 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 21: | Freestanding Columns: Antitype of Church and Christians: 1 Tim ... ... The benches that lined the outside synagogue walls had columns a few feet way from the edge of the bench. b. As a person walked in the centre or walked on the bema, there would always be ... Period II-IV: either as the terminal columns on the floor or gallery level or as having been brought to the site in the early Arab period and not having been a part of the original building. ... The pillars were erected on either side of the temple portico (the roofless front porch). Jakin, the name of the south pillar, means "He [Yahweh] establishes," and Boaz, the name of the north pillar, means "In Him [Yahweh] is ... but as this was "finished" without them, and as supporting pillars of brass are never found in stone and wooden buildings; these pillars, which were works of art, could not have had an ... Their names, Jakin and Boaz, are something of a puzzle, but the most likely theory is that these were the opening words of two inscriptions. On the basis of the various expressions found in ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/synagogues/Columns-Pillars-Freestanding-Antitype-Christians-Architectural-ancient-Synagogue-pre-70AD-standardized-typology-incorporated-spiritualized-similarities-church.htm | 52% Size: 131K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 22: | Acapella Responsive Singing, No Instruments in first century ... ... Since a special vocal use of psallo is first and most clearly attested in Jewish religious literature, and since the Psalms were recited without instrumental accompaniment in the synagogue services, a reasonable hypothesis may be ... though we have no excavated site top plans for any synagogue in Egypt, we do have many in both and outside Judea that are all triclinium style. 2. The very first synagogue was the great Basilica synagogue of Alexandria in 280 BC. a. ... Scanlin, Psalm 145:5, 1993 AD) 4. "After each verse 11QPsa also preserves a congregational response, "Blessed be Yahweh, and blessed be his name forever!" which is not found in MT." (Psalms III 101-150: Introduction, Translation, and Notes with an Appendix: The Grammar of the Psalter, ... Go to: Master Synagogue List Go to: Jewish Messianic Expectations in DSS Go to: Map of Synagogue Sites Excavations Inscriptions Literature Go to: Synagogue Excavations Go to: Synagogue Inscriptions Go to: Synagogue Literary Sources ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/synagogues/Acapella-responsive-singing-non-instrumental-first-century-early-Christian-Church-New-Testament-worship-prototype-ancient-Synagogue-ritual-liturgy-worship.htm | 52% Size: 265K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 23: | First Century Synagogue Top Plans: Masada 78 BC ... This is certainly true of the Aramaic and Hebrew ostraca and jar inscriptions as well as of the biblical scrolls and other sacred texts. However, almost all the Greek ... scrolls, which had become unfit for public use, either because their text was found to be faulty to an excessive degree or because they were tattered beyond repair.' ... This could have been either the brother of Judas Maccabaeus or Alexander Jannaeus, whose Hebrew name was Jonathan. The place is still referred to as a fortress when, ... XIV, 280-303; War, I 238, 263-6). After his return he built a completely new fortress on the site. Josephus describes the new fortress in minute detail (War VII, ... in the Aramaic script." (The Evolution of Two Hebrew Scripts, Paleo-Hebrew or Phoenician script was used before Aramaic script was introduced by Jews returning from ... synagogue and must have been damaged or otherwise "deemed unfit for public reading, rendering their religious storage in a special burial place (genizah) mandatory." ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/synagogues/Masada-bible-ancient-synagogues-first-century-oldest-pre70AD-Jesus-archeology-top-plan-genizah-Eleazar-ben-yair-manuscripts-papyrus-fragments-Hebrew-masoretic-78bc.htm | 52% Size: 121K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 24: | The Bible and Radiocarbon Dating: Archaeology, Text and Science ... ... There are two such minor anchors on which all the sides in this debate agree. The first is represented by the site of Jezreel excavated by Ussishkin and John Woodhead ... the 9th century BCE. However, Zimhoni has also shown that similar pottery was found in the construction fills below the royal enclosure of Jezreel, probably ... production (domi-nance of red slip and hand burnish, disappearance of the Canaanite painted pottery tradition) to settlement patterns, architecture and religious art. ... Yet this resemblance can be explained if we assume that both kings-Solomon and Ahab-used Phoenician masons. Builders families or 4 Shishak, King of Egypt The ... Bulletin of the Egyptological Seminar 14: 7-18. Epigraphic Survey (1936-86) Reliefs and Inscriptions at Karnak (Chicago: Oriental Institute). Hornung, E. (1965) Die ... The seal contains the name of Qos-Gabr and is known from the 7th-century BCE Assyrian annals of Esarhaddon (Prism B, ca. 673-672 BCE; Pritchard 1969: 291) and in the ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-bible-and-radiocarbon-dating-archaeology-text-and-science-thomas-e-levy-thomas-higham-2005ad.htm | 51% Size: 126K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 25: | Transjordan Early Edom And Moab 1900 BC ... One example is the faience chalice, of which a fragment was found at Buseirah; this type of vessel is securely dated to the 10th-9th centuries BC (one of Shoshenq I/... of the incomplete name Tpn[....] in Kom el-Hetan is irrelevant; 6) he failed to understand the nature of the palimpsests or the wall-surfaces. 38. Not quite all, cf. ... Year 4 (Timm 1989:20-21) is highly unlikely, because Ramesses II was on the Phoenician coast that year, not in Transjordan; the change of relief-label almost ... infra, Chapter 7 Figure 7.2, and Bienkowski 1991:35-36, pls.33-34. For the site of Jebel Shihan, see Worschech 1990:13-15. On recent work at Balu'a, cf. ibid., ... Vorlaufige Bemerkungen zu den neuen Achtungstexten. ZDPV 64:21-39. Astour, M.C. 1979 Yahweh in Egyptian Topographic Lists. In Festschrift Elmar Edel 12. Miirz 1979, ... Edel, E. 1980 Die Ortsnamen in den Tempeln von Aksha, Amarah und Soleb im Sudan. BN 11:63-79. Epigraphic Survey 1954 Reliefs and Inscriptions at Karnak III: The ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-edomites-early-edom-and-moab-piotr-bienkowski-1992ad.htm | 51% Size: 75K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 26: | Four Hebrew Scripts: Mosaic, Hieroglyphic, Paleo, Aramaic, square ... We know from the recently translated "Sinai inscriptions" that Joseph borrowed 22 Egyptian hieroglyphic symbols as the character alphabet for each sound in the Hebrew ... The only group using true Hebrew in the first century AD were the Jerusalem temple elites (high priest and Sadducees). Their public religious services were not ... called his son Joseph and said to him, "Please, if I have found favor in your sight, place now your hand under my thigh and deal with me in kindness and faithfulness. ... it is done to the man who does not build up his brother's house.' "In Israel his name shall be called, 'The house of him whose sandal is removed.'" (Deuteronomy ... For such inscriptions, the kingdom of Sam'al (Zincirli, near the present border between Turkey and Syria) switched from Phoenician in the ninth century to a local ... Religious practices (Sabbath and Passover) as well as a temple of Yahweh are mentioned (see Porten 1992, 2003). This period coincides with the biblical return from ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/manuscripts/Septuagint-LXX-Hebrew-ancient-earliest-writing-Bible-scripts-alphabets-origin-Mosaic-heiroglyphic-Paleo-Aramaic-Masoretic-Jewish-Greek.htm | 51% Size: 153K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 27: | Security of Bulla and Seals Judah Israel. Creation of ancient ... of Jeremiah: Remnants of a burnt archive, Nahman Avigad, p14, 1986 AD) c. "The assemblage [255 bulla, 1975 AD] clearly originates from the site of a conflagration. ... Scribes were also leaders, teachers and experts of the religious law of Moses: "Ezra the scribe stood at a wooden podium which they had made for the purpose. ... Ezra ... and the high priest came up and tied it in bags and counted the money which was found in the house of the Lord." (2 Kings 12:10) "Joah the son of Asaph the recorder" ... to its script, each people according to its language, being written in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed with the king's signet ring." (Esther 3:12) Scribes ... We may also question whether there were not, in the priestly atonement ritual in Israel, occurrences of such "marking" of someone to whom Yahweh had shown mercy, ... But the papyri were sealed with wax bullae or scalings with inscriptions in the paleo-Hebrew script-the script most likely to be known by local officials." (The ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/bulla/bible-bulla-seals-security-creation-manufacture-of-ancient-legal-documents-sealed-papyrus-paper-rolled-folded-tied-string-knots-rosa-Terra-Rossa-clay-soil-israel-judah.htm | 51% Size: 68K Depth: 6 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 28: | Origin of Ancient synagogues: Architectural prototype of the ... ... The tradition that the exiles who were deported with Jehoiachin in 597 BC, hauled stone and dirt from the Jerusalem temple site to build a synagogue in Nehardea is an ... The Jerusalem Talmud said Hadrian destroyed it. It is also informative that 99% of the oldest synagogue stone inscriptions are written in Greek and not Hebrew. Philo ... Synagogues used the Greek Tanakh before Messiah Jesus was born: 1. "there is ample literary evidence for the notion that Scripture was read in Greek in religious ... Russell notes that "before the second century of the Christian religion, no traces can be found of any controversy as to the differences supposed to exist in the ... Bible and Spade, 29, no. 2, p 45, 2016 AD) 3. Aquila of Sinope (~130 AD) Gentile, converted then excommunicated as Christian, converted to Judaism: "Aquila's name ... Prototype of the Pulpit: Raised area at front where preacher stands Synagogue perimeter bench seating None Center focused benches lining the perimeter of the assembly ... ... https://www.bible.ca/synagogues/welcome.htm | 51% Size: 391K Depth: 1 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 29: | First Century Synagogue Top Plans: Herodium 66 AD Well, in the place that had been a grand banquet hall in the Herodium, they converted it into a synagogue. Here's what they did. They of course, fashioned bench ... 17.8.3 §199; Pliny HN 5.14.70) is attributed to E. Robinson, who visited the site in 1838." (ABD, Herodium) 2. Herodium was a fortress of Herod until 66 AD. 3. ... Three entrances were found on the east leading into a large courtyard (Figs. II-lc, 11-4). The hall was covered either by a ceiling, mainly above the benches, or by a ... Jewish Messianic Expectations in DSS Go to: Map of Synagogue Sites Excavations Inscriptions Literature Go to: Synagogue Excavations Go to: Synagogue Inscriptions Go ... palaces, and erected very strong fortifications, and called it, from his own name Herodium. (266) Now, as they were in flight, many joined themselves to him every ... that crowded about the temple, being the weaker part of them, gave it out that, as the times were, he was the happiest and most religious man who should die first. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/synagogues/Herodium-ancient-synagogues-first-century-oldest-pre70AD-Jesus-archeology-top-plan-bema-mikveh-mikvaot-free-standing-columns-open-air-first-jewish-revolt-66ad.htm | 51% Size: 161K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 30: | The Samaritans: 720 BC The pagan half-Jews of the Old Testament ... ... The oak tree was seen as a male deity and the Myrtle as female deity. These two tree were part of the pagan worship of the site. Pagan worship under trees was one of ... They continued to worship both idols and Yahweh, the one true God of Israel. This is exactly why Yahweh punished them by deporting them for eternal extinction into ... Click to View Here is a close up of the second of two "Tobiah" inscriptions on the palace walls: Click to View Here is a more detailed look at Tobiah's temple and palace. The arrival of Judah after 538 BC back to Jerusalem was a social force that caused the Samaritan's to get back into the "religious counterfeiting business" of ... Then Jesus answered and said, "Were there not ten cleansed? But the nine-where are they? "Was no one found who returned to give glory to God, except this foreigner?"" ... But when they believed Philip preaching the good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were being baptized, men and women alike. Even Simon ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-samaritans.htm | 51% Size: 218K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 31: | The Edomites: From Esau to Edom to Idumea to Extinction 2006BC ... ... The fact that two battles took place in the Arabah valley of Salt is as significant as it is instructive: 1000 BC: "So David made a name for himself when he returned from killing 18,000 Edomites in ... Nelson Glueck recognized that Edom was Transjordan: "Why it was that an inspired handful of religious geniuses in Israel and Judah developed the idea of one great God, and that the people of the ... For example, as the westernmost limit of Edom is not indicated in the Bible except by its relation to Kadesh-barnea, that limit now passes from an unknown to a known quantity, by the fixing of a site ... because an attack by the Edomites is anticipated-"lest the Edomites come," to use the language found on the Hebrew ostracon (an inscribed pottery sherd)." (New Light on the Edomites, Itzhaq ... occurred no earlier than the eighth century B.C. The earliest reference to Edom in Assyrian inscriptions appears on the Nimrud Slab, a list of states subjugated by Adad-nirari III ca. 796 B.C. The ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-edomite-territory-mt-seir.htm | 50% Size: 232K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 32: | Zedekiah, Matteniah King of Judah 597-587 BC The Chronological ... Since the Bible refers to hundreds of cities, kings, and places, we would expect to find evidence from on-site excavations. And this is exactly what we have found. ... you may know that it is I, The Lord, the God of Israel, who calls you by your name. ... ""I have aroused him in righteousness And I will make all his ways smooth; ... the book of the law in the temple. 3. Both Josiah and Jeremiah were at war with the religious establishment and the idol worship that was rampant among the people. a. ... Monday 31 July 593 5 Tammuz Ezek 1:1-3:15 Ezekiel's first vision of the "glory of Yahweh" 1:1 "In the 13th year in the fourth month on the fifth day" 1:2 "In the fifth month, of the fifth year of King Jehoiachin's exile" 30 years = 623 BC 1. Book of the law found 2. Year Ezekiel was born: now age 30 and can serve as a priest 3. ... All these cities are not otherwise mentioned in the historical inscriptions of Nebuchadnezzar, but at least for the most powerful, first ranked city of Tyre, there ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-Zedekiah-Matteniah-last-king-of-judah-seal-bulla-cave-597-587bc | 50% Size: 1.0M Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 33: | The "Aharoni Fortress" Near Quseima and the "Israelite Fortresses ... ... The closest architectural comparison is the gate of Horvat Teman (Kuntillet `Ajrud, Meshel 1992b: Fig. 10. The threshold and the stone socket for the door hinge. Looking east. Fig. 12. Locus 9. Looking west. 105), which is, however, some 150 to 200 years later than the present site.5 Wooden remains found at Locus 7 were defined as Pistacia atlantica and Populus (Appendix 1). They may be the remains of a wooden ceiling of the gate. Locus 9 (figures 11, 12). A small room adjoined the southern wall, its inner measurements 6.60 x 2.20 m. The floor, part natural rock and part beaten earth, is incomplete and slopes down to the south. The northeastern corner was apparently slightly raised. Along the room, more or less in the middle, stand three stones, possibly bases for wooden columns to support the ceiling. Along the southern and western walls is a stone-built bench, ca. 0.30 m in width and 0.20 to 0.25 m high. The sparse finds include a small clay wheel with a hole in the middle, found on ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-exodus-kadesh-barnea-aharoni-fortress-near-quseima-israelite-fortresses-in-negev-zeev-meshel-1994ad.htm | 46% Size: 92K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 34: | The Rectangular Fortress at Kadesh Barnea, David Ussishkin, 1995 ... ... The rectangular fortress in its final stage was violently destroyed, as noted both by Dothan and Cohen. Burnt layers and assemblages of complete pottery vessels were found sealed beneath the destruction debris. On the other hand, there are no ... Appendix: Kadesh-Barnea and Kuntillet 'Ajrud The enclosure of Kuntillet 'Ajrud, excavated by Z. Meshe1,20 is an unusual site, whose nature and function are far from clear. Although it is located in southern Sinai, the finds from the enclosure ... If that is so, Kadesh-Barnea must have been a central station on the long route from Israel and Judah to Kuntillet 'Ajrud. 19 N. Na'aman: The Kingdom of Judah under Josiah, Tel Aviv 18 (1991), pp. 48-49. 20 See, e.g., Z. Meshel: Kuntillet 'Ajrud, A Religious Centre ... of the eighth century B.C.E. During this period the site of Kadesh-Barnea was abandoned (E. Ayalon, who studied the pottery assemblage of Kuntillet `Ajrud, emphasized the absence there of the pottery assemblages characterising Kadesh-Barnea22). ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-exodus-kadesh-barnea-rectangular-fortress-at-kadesh-barnea-david-ussishkin-1995ad.htm | 46% Size: 25K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 35: | Book of Balaam Son of Beor Inscription at Tell Deir Alla, Succoth ... Archaeology is an important science that confirms the historical accuracy of the Bible. Since the Bible refers to hundreds of cities, kings, and places, we would expect to find evidence from on-site excavations. And this is exactly .../panorama-israel-archeology-succoth-deir-alla-balaam-th.jpg 2. The author on Tell Deir Alla II. The discovery of the Book of Balaam inscriptions: 1. "In an unprecedented discovery, an ancient text found at Deir Alla, Jordan, in 1967 tells about the activities of a prophet named Balaam. ... been on the wall for some time prior to the earthquake." (Balaam Son of Beor, Bible and Spade, Bryant G. Wood, p114, 1995 AD) 2. "Deir Alla in the eighth-century B.C. was a large city, perhaps even a center of religious instruction. ... Unfortunately, only the first letter of her name has been preserved (line 6), so her identity can only be a matter of conjecture. Like the deceiving spirit sent forth from the divine council witnessed by the prophet Micaiah the son on ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-balaam-son-of-beor-inscription-tell-deir-alla-succoth-1400-750bc.htm | 45% Size: 87K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 36: | Hebrew, Jewish, Yehuda, Bible coins of the Persian Empire Nehemiah) appointed by the Persian king is in the Bible. "pehah"= (Governor) is the standard Hebrew title of a governor that dates back to Solomon. However, during the minting of coins during Persian rule were inscriptions with "PHH" and sometimes additionally with the personal name of the governor! Several unique inscriptions from the Persian era and later have been found on coins, pottery ... It is most frequent in Esther, where it denotes all Israelites (cf. the application of the term to Mordecai, who was of the tribe of Benjamin: 2:5; 3:5; 5:13; etc.); the same usage is found in Daniel (3:8, 12). Hence the term takes on a decidedly religious connotation, referring to adherents of the ... Many coins from the Persian era and later had the YHD/YHWD inscription on them. There is a great similarity between YHWD and the divine name of God YHWH "Yahweh". This duck coin is patterned after weight stones in the shape of ducks. It is interesting they put the duck motif on their coins as a kind ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/coins/Jesus-coins-of-the-bible-Persian-Empire-539-333BC.htm | 45% Size: 59K Depth: 1 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 37: | bible-archeology-exodus-kadesh-barnea-rudolph-cohen-kadesh-barnea ... 1:46), and this was the first national-religious centre around which the Israelite tribes under Moses coalesced. It was from Kadesh that Moses sent twelve men to spy out the land (Num. 13:26), and messengers to the king of Edom to request passage through his territory (Num. 20:14). The abundance of water at the Kadesh-barnea oasis is connected with a miracle performed by Moses (Num. 20:11), and the episode preceding this miracle gave the site the name, "the Waters of Meribah (strife)" (Num. ... A structure uncovered in the northwestern corner of the site comprised a number of chambers, including a rectangular room (ca. 6 x 4 m.) with a stone bench running along its walls. On the ash-covered floors of the casemate rooms was a rich ... Set into the floor of this room was an oven containing a complete hand-made cooking-pot. Wheelmade pottery characteristic of the 8th-7th centuries B.C.E. was found on the floors of the rooms of the middle fortress along with numerous "Negebite" ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-exodus-kadesh-barnea-rudolph-cohen-kadesh-barnea-fortress-judaean-israel-museum-1983ad.htm | 45% Size: 28K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 38: | They're Digging up Bible Stories! The shovel and spade have confirmed that the historical information of the Bible is both accurate and reliable. Archaeology is an important science that confirms the historical accuracy of the Bible. Since the Bible makes reference to hundreds of cities, kings, and places, we would expect to find evidence from on-site excavations. If we did not find any such evidence, we would highly question the Bible's claim of inspiration and tend to view it as myth and folklore. We ... "We constantly thank God that when you received from us the word of God's message, you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what it really is, the word of God" (1 Thessalonians 2:13). Museum of Archeology that confirms the Bible is God's inspired word Date Focus Photo Details 1700 BC Jabin of Joshua and Deborah was a dynastic name for the king of Hazor. Two 18th century inscriptions have been found at Mari and Hazor with the name Jabin proving it is a dynastic name for all the kings of Hazor that lasted over 500 ... ... https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology.htm | 45% Size: 37K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 39: | 495-399 BC: The Judean Elephantine Egyptian Papyrus letters to ... Archaeology is an important science that confirms the historical accuracy of the Bible. Since the Bible refers to hundreds of cities, kings, and places, we would expect to find evidence from on-site excavations. And this is exactly what we have found. The Bible is the most historically ... Passover regulations (unleavened wine and bread) e. Conclusion (Importance of Elephantine papyrus to the Bible) 2. The island of Elephantine may have got its name from the presence of large rocks that have the appearance of elephants ... Both towns had wharves and were fortified with garrisons to protect the trade in ivory, animal skins, spices, minerals, slaves, and food. Also a religious center, Elephantine was the temple city of Khnum, the Egyptian god of the cataract ... in its traditional form." (ISBE, Elephantine Papyri, 1988 AD) b. "In Elephantine, the temple to the Jewish deity Yahu (a variant form of the biblical names for the God of Israel, Yah and Yahweh) was destroyed in the fifth century bc. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/manuscripts/bible-manuscripts-archeology-Elephantine-papyrus-Egypt-Aswan-Syene-Darius-persian-Jewish-colony-temple-burned-Bagohi-Sanballat-passover-wine-fortress-Ezek29-10-495-399BC.htm | 45% Size: 249K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 40: | The Iron Age Fortresses at En Haseva, Rudolph Cohen, 1995 AD ... This as yet unidentified goddess was part of an assemblage of about five hundred complete or fragmentary figurines and reliefs gathered at the site. The collection shares many iconographic similarites with that of 'En Haseva. Courtesy of the Israel ... The homed goddess figurine from Horvat Qitmit is the obvious exception to this (Beck 1986; Beit-Arieh 1991:110-111; Beit-Arieh and Beck 1987:27-28). Where does one look for the origins of the artistic tradi-tion of the pottery? Beck found Phoenician ... large pomegranates, decorative elements for an incense burner; and one of the small limestone incense altars, a prominent aspect of the religious material culture in Judea and elsewhere. Courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority. 1987:23-31). ... But Manasseh's actions went much farther than this and constituted a thorough-going repudiation of the reform party and all its works. The local shrines of Yahweh, which Hezekiah had attempted to suppress, were restored. Pagan cults and practices ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-exodus-kadesh-barnea-iron-age-fortresses-negev-ein-haseva-rudolph-cohen-1995ad.htm | 45% Size: 55K Depth: 6 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 41: | Origin of Synagogues: 10 Reasons why Synagogues began in Alexandria ... He builds his argument upon the evidence provided by the inscriptions mentioned above and tries to understand Egyptian synagogues in terms of a Jewish form of the Hellenistic religious association, which was prevalent ... Even before this the Jews in Egypt, at Elephantine, had established a temple of Yahweh (in the form Yah or Yaho), and it is relevant to our theme that there are clear signs of the penetration of Egyptian religious cults into the life of the community." (The Cambridge History of Judaism: The early Roman period, Volume 3, p1028, 1999 AD) c. ... In Philo's day Jews lived throughout Alexandria but were particularly concentrated in two of its five quarters (Philo Flacc. 55; Josephus J.W. 2.18.8 §495). Synagogues were to be found throughout the city (Philo Leg. ... David built 2 four chamber gates at Qeiyafa, (see photo above) one facing south and one facing west as reflected in the Biblical name "Sha'arayim" which literally means "two gates". Other four chamber gates were ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/synagogues/Origin-of-ancient-Synagogues-first-century-originated-at-Alexandria-Egypt-began-spawned-by-Greek-Septuagint-translation-Tanakh-Babylonian-captivity-Nehemiah-280BC.htm | 45% Size: 125K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 42: | bible-archeology-exodus-kadesh-barnea-ein-el-qudeirat-did-i-excavate ... Ein el-Qudeirat Difficulty of site identification and absence of Exodus remains poses problem By Rudolph Cohen 1981 AD The problem of Kadesh-Barnea is simply stated: Has the site been correctly identified? If so, why have we found no remains from ... There are many other Biblical references to Kadesh-Barneaboth earlier and later in Israel's history. According to Genesis 14:7, Abraham fought the Amalekites at "Ein-Mishpat, which is now Kadesh." Apparently the original name of the site was Ein-Mishpat, ... storage jars, pithoib, oil lamps, cooking pots, and flasks, all belonging to the seventh-sixth centuries B.C. Two especially lovely juglets were of Phoenician origin. From this level of the fortress we also found some beads and an iron arrowhead. ... Or, perhaps, Kadesh-Barnea was twice rebuilt because its association with Moses and the Exodus made it sacred to the later Israelites. Kadesh-Barnea may have served a religious or cultic purpose as well as a military and diplomatic role. But, ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-exodus-kadesh-barnea-ein-el-qudeirat-did-i-excavate-kadesh-barnea-rudolph-cohen-bar-1981ad.htm | 45% Size: 20K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 43: | Reconstructing Petra Smithsonian: June 2007; Vol 38 Num 3 By ... Directly ahead is a sheer cliff lined with elegant carvings reminiscent of Greek and Roman temples, a surreal vision in this remote mountain valley surrounded by desert. This is the back door to Petra, whose very name means rock in Greek. In its ... Constructed during the first century B.C. and the first century A.D., it included a 600-seat theater, a triple colonnade, an enormous paved courtyard and vaulted rooms underneath. Artifacts found at the site-from tiny Nabatean coins to chunks of ... Since then, Joukowsky's team, along with a Swiss team and another American effort, have laid bare what once was the political, religious and social heart of the metropolis, putting to rest forever the idea that this was merely a city of tombs. NO ... They left little for future archaeologists-not even broken pottery The Nabateans developed a writing system-ultimately the basis of written Arabic- though the inscriptions they left in Petra and elsewhere are mostly names of people and places and ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-exodus-kadesh-barnea-petra-smithsonian-june-2007-vol38-num3.htm | 45% Size: 22K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 44: | Part 2: Bible Section: Trinity Watchtower BOOKLET: Should You ... Direct your friends who are being preyed upon by JW cult members to this page, but do not put this page on another web site because it is being constantly updated. Let us know what you think of this ... John 1:1 and John 20:28, where Thomas said to Jesus, "My Lord and My God" where Jesus is called God and Mt 28:18-19 where we are commanded to be baptized in the name of three different persons. ... God is a single personal being. The idea that a trinity is to be found there . . . is utterly without foundation." Was there any change from monotheism after Jesus came to the earth? Paine answers: ... Paine was a Bible trasher who said of the Bible: "Its presuppositions of a divine miraculous origin and character, differentiating the Bible from all other religious literature, can no longer be ... Notice how closely those references to the origin of Jesus correlate with expressions uttered by the figurative "Wisdom" in the Bible book of Proverbs: "Yahweh created me, first-fruits of his ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-JW-SYBTT-Watchtower-BOOKLET-Should-You-Believe-the-Trinity-EXPOSED-REFUTED-bible-section.htm | 45% Size: 91K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 45: | Trinity Attackers refuted! (Watchtower's: Should You Believe ... Direct your friends who are being preyed upon by JW cult members to this page, but do not put this page on another web site because it is being constantly updated. Let us know what you think of this ... John 1:1 and John 20:28, where Thomas said to Jesus, "My Lord and My God" where Jesus is called God and Mt 28:18-19 where we are commanded to be baptized in the name of three different persons. ... God is a single personal being. The idea that a trinity is to be found there . . . is utterly without foundation." Was there any change from monotheism after Jesus came to the earth? Paine answers: ... Paine was a Bible trasher who said of the Bible: "Its presuppositions of a divine miraculous origin and character, differentiating the Bible from all other religious literature, can no longer be ... Notice how closely those references to the origin of Jesus correlate with expressions uttered by the figurative "Wisdom" in the Bible book of Proverbs: "Yahweh created me, first-fruits of his ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-frames-start-page-SYBTT-bible-section.htm | 45% Size: 727 bytes Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 46: | Josiah, King of Judah 640-609 BC seals, bulla. They're Digging ... Archaeology is an important science that confirms the historical accuracy of the Bible. Since the Bible refers to hundreds of cities, kings, and places, we would expect to find evidence from on-site excavations. And this is exactly what we have found. The Bible is the most historically ... He cried against the altar by the word of the Lord, and said, "O altar, altar, thus says the Lord, 'Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name; and on you he shall sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn ... "Pursuant to the order to you of Josiah the king to give by the hand of Zechariah silver of Tarshish to the Temple of Yahweh Three Shekels" Date of ostracon: 610 BC Shlomo Moussaieff #1: 1997 AD Unprovenanced Full outline King Josiah, ... between Jeremiah and the temple priests (e.g., Jer 20:1-6; 29:24-32)." (NIV commentary, Jer 1:1, 2002 AD) 4. Both Josiah and Jeremiah were at war with the religious establishment and the idol worship that was rampant among the people. a. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-josiah-king-of-judah-hilkiah-high-priest-find-lost-book-law-of-moses-seal-bulla-640-609bc.htm | 45% Size: 273K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 47: | Seals, Bulla, Documents, Pottery & Antitypical New Testament ... be of God and not from ourselves;" (2 Corinthians 4:7) "Nevertheless, the firm foundation of God stands, having this seal, "The Lord knows those who are His," and, "Everyone who names the name of the Lord is to abstain from wickedness." ... Archaeology is an important science that confirms the historical accuracy of the Bible. Since the Bible refers to hundreds of cities, kings, and places, we would expect to find evidence from on-site excavations. And this is exactly what we have found. The Bible is the most historically ... Scribes were also leaders, teachers and experts of the religious law of Moses: "Ezra the scribe stood at a wooden podium which they had made for the purpose. ... Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people for he was standing ... We may also question whether there were not, in the priestly atonement ritual in Israel, occurrences of such "marking" of someone to whom Yahweh had shown mercy, analogous to the mouth-cleansing rite which must lie behind Is 6:6f." ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/bulla/bible-archeology-seals-clay-bulla-scribes-inkwells-quills-papyrus-documents-scriptorium-antitype-assurance-salvation-Christ.htm | 45% Size: 139K Depth: 6 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 48: | First Century Synagogue Top Plans: Qiryat Sefer 90 BC likely at the time of Alexander Jannaeus. 2. Without knowing the ancient name of the town, it is difficult to find literary sources and patch together a history. 3. We do know that Kiryat Sefer was abandoned after the Bar Kokhba rebellion of 132-5 AD. D. Excavation details: 1. Mikveh for ritual purity: a. See also: Mikveh for Ritual Purity: The Christian Maker b. There was a Mikveh nearby the synagogue. c. Here is the Mikveh at Jericho: 2. Bench seats: a. ... east of Tel Aviv, on a hill near the ancient road from Caesarea via Beit Horon to Jerusalem. The remains of a small Jewish village were found at the site. Several dwellings were arranged around a broad square, at the center of which stood a public building - the synagogue. ... By Steve Rudd 2017: Contact the author for comments, input or corrections Go to: Master Synagogue List Go to: Jewish Messianic Expectations in DSS Go to: Map of Synagogue Sites Excavations Inscriptions Literature Go to: Synagogue Excavations Go to: Synagogue ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/synagogues/Qiryat-Sefer-bible-ancient-synagogues-first-century-oldest-pre70AD-Jesus-archeology-top-plan-red-plastered-painted-fresco-four-columns-mikveh-mikvaot-benches-90bc.htm | 45% Size: 71K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 49: | Lachish Letters Ostraca collection, Tablets and Inscriptions ... Whether this means that the documents are drafts of letters written on the site and sent elsewhere (Yadin 1981) is open to debate (Rainey 1987; Parker 1994). They are generally dated to the period ... Because they are letters, they also give precious insights into the personal aspects of these administrative workings. From the perspective of the history of discovery, the Lachish inscriptions were ... The first 18 were found by the late J. L. Starkey in 1935; three more (making 21 in all) were added during a supplementary campaign in 1938. Most of the ostraca were letters, while others were lists ... Note: Lachish ostraca 2,6,7,8,18 from same pottery vessel , written by same scribe at the same time in 589 BC. Inscription on pottery shard: "To my lord Joash1: May Yahweh give you good news at this ... Inscription on pottery shard: "...your servant sent it the letter of sons of ? [?]ah, the prophet..." Jeremiah the prophet! Only the last two letters "AH" of the prophet's name survived on the ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/ostraca/Ostraca-Lachish-Letters-Jeremiah-YHWH-Egypt-Fire-Signals-Azekah-weakening-hands-nebuchadnezzar-587BC.htm | 44% Size: 37K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 50: | 597 BC: Arad Ostraca #18: Man seeks asylum in Temple of Solomon ... Man seeks asylum in Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem at the time of Zedekiah Ostraca, Tablets and Inscriptions of the Bible Click to View Digging up Bible stories! 5 ostraca document 3 important Bible ... contains "YHWH" the name of God! Arad ostracon inscription #18 mentions the Jerusalem Temple of Solomon from the first temple period. Arad ostracon inscription #18 illustrates how the Temple was used for asylum seekers: 1 Ki 1:50-51, 2:28, Neh 6:10, 1 Macc 10:43 Arad ostracon 18 is a fully provenienced object. Translation of Arad ostracon #18: "To my lord Eliashib1. May Yahweh2 concern himself ... longer Temple slaves of inferior degree, but held a position as profes-sionals connected with religious functions. 7. Line 6. - this sign is identical to that which appears in Inscription 1:7 as a ... Eliashib concerned a man whose life was in danger.21 The writer writes that all is well and he is alive in the Temple. The two matters are connected - the man had found a sanctuary in the Temple. g. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/ostraca/bible-ostraca-ostracon-Arad18-letters-refugee-Solomons-temple-of-YHWH-Eliashib-Qerosite-Keros-homer-measure-Shemaiah-Zedekiah-597bc.htm | 44% Size: 51K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
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